Quotes About Planning

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches—representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you'd punched through the card, you couldn't make any more investments at all. Under those rules, you'd really think carefully about what you did and you'd be forced to load up on what you'd really thought about. So you'd do so much better.

Do not save what is left after expending, but spend what is left after saving.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago.

This is always the writer's cunning plan – writing things down so that you can see them properly.

When we understand not just the superficial shape of those elements but how they help us think about our research and its reporting, we are better able to plan, evaluate, and, most important, use the process not just to produce a good report but to think better about our entire project. The elements of a report-its structure, style, and methods of proof-are not empty formulas for convincing readers to accept our claims: they help us test our work and even discover new lines of thought.

Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.

There is nothing to worry about! Absolutely nothing. You can spend the rest of your life, beginning right now, worrying about the future, and no amount of your worry will change a thing. Remember that worry is defined as being immobilized in the present as a result of things that are going or not going to happen in the future. You must be careful not to confuse worrying with planning for the future.

act before difficulties occur, sense disorder coming your way, and manage it in advance.

Control! Control, Mac," he said. "There's plenty of time." He lifted his coat from the back of a chair. "All afternoon," he added. "Time to go out and plenty of time to get back.

Everytime there's a good suggestion, someone brings up the budget.

If the worst is a possibility, then you keep it on the table. Don't hide from it. Don't run. It can happen. And if and when it does, you need to have thought about it ahead of time. That way you're not crushed when your worst thought becomes your reality.

Unfortunately, when choosing how to live or move, most of us are not as free as we think. Our options are strikingly limited, and they are defined by the planners, engineers, politicians, architects, marketers, and land speculators who imprint their own values on the urban landscape.

In 2010 Miami, Florida, became the first major city to toss out its entire zoning book in favor of a homegrown form-based code.

the obvious solution to congestion—building more roads—simply produces more traffic, creating a hedonic treadmill of construction and frustration.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail.

All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. C.S.LEWIS

My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.